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δεκάμηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεκάμηνος δεκάμηνη δεκάμηνον

Structure: δεκαμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mh/n

Sense

  1. ten months old
  2. in the tenth month

Examples

  • Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ, ὅτε ἐγεννᾶτο τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένοσ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ, τοσαύτην γενέσθαι τῷ μήκει τοῦ χρόνου διὰ τὸ βραδυπορεῖν τὸν ἥλιον τὴν ἡμέραν, ὁπόση νῦν ἐστιν ἡ δεκάμηνοσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 1:1)
  • ἡ δὲ βασιλέοσ αἱρ́εσισ ἐσ τὴν ὑστέρην τὴν Μαρδονίου ἐπιστρατηίην δεκάμηνοσ ἐγένετο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 3 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. ten months old

  2. in the tenth month

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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